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>> kind of a glamour shot. >> it never occurred to him that they did more than business together. >> if you looked at annette and took into account her age and you looked and bill and took into account his age why would you think -- >> orange county, california? hello. >> i guess i'm a rookie to orange county. >> but when it comes to murder and relationships sometimes two's company, three's a motive. if eric found out that bill was money more than just annette's mentor, was it a motive for murder? so in their interview investigators got right to the point. what was he doing that night? >> i wa...

You found this stuff? >> absolutely. >> annette denied it was her. but soon enough she had moved out and up and in with bill mclaughlin. it was clear to detectives that annette jonston was greedy and would stop at nothing for money. it was clear to him that she'd been cheating on bill. it was also clear to him he'd been cheating on bill with eric. he even knew that her key to the community pedestrian gate was missing and remember, there was one found. could have been it on the mat at the murder scene. but did all that make her a killer? she and her lover, eric? >> do you remember what you thou...

Heard from annette before the murder that she was about to have lots of money to invest. and they found a neighbor of eric's from that melrose place type building, a woman who had been too afraid to come forward at the time of the murder. >> susanne was very important because susanne gave the best comprehensive understanding of the way a net manipulated eric into committing the murder. >> how they would chat by the pool, how one day eric was angry, said his girlfriend's boss, meaning bill mclaughlin had tried to rape her. >> totally untrue. they're engaged to be married. she'd been living at t...

>> guilty, guilty of the crime of felony. >> then after conviction the oddest thing happened. an epilogue if you like. eric called up pat murphy from jail and said he was finally ready to tell the truth. of course he told us, too. >> the first thing i wanted to do was clear up with matt that i didn't do the crime. but i also wanted to share some other information with him that i hadn't showed anybody in 17 years. >> eric had a new story. >> if anette wanted bill mclaughlin dead. then bill mclaughlin was as good as dead. whether to get me to do it or pay someone else. >> eric's story now, that ...

Wonderful neighbor. >> across the country in connecticut police picked up eric and accused him of murder too. eric was also defiant. >> it wasn't eric who shot bill mclaughlin. this is a fact. and matt murphy is wrong. i'll tell you right now on my children, he's just straight wrong. >> did eric kill bill mclaughlin? did he conspire with annette or was matt murphy in over his head? up to a jury soon. >> coming up, first they had to face trial where annette's lawyer had an unusual defense. >> in court you called your client a [ bleep ]? >> just because you've treated people poorly in your life ...